AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-Young people & SRHR
By Ngqabutho Mpofu Nosipho Soga is a 19-year-old learner who hails from Kuyasa, a Khayelitsha township in Cape Town. She can best be described as bubbly, intelligent, engaged and relatively…
AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-Condoms are not enough
By Ngqabutho Mpofu Nosicelo Kokoti cannot be described as an adolescent woman anymore. [caption id="attachment_6529" align="alignright" width="300"] Nosicelo Kokoti[/caption] However, at the age of 31, she is as passionate as…
AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-All about Love
By Ngqabutho Mpofu Dressed in a Robert Sobukwe Dashiki and trendy shoes, Thando Jack draws [caption id="attachment_6508" align="alignright" width="300"] Thando Jackby Joyrene Kramer[/caption] gazes from the mainly white upper middle-class…
AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-Where I work now, I actually feel like a woman
By Nomatter Ndebele Thirty-seven-year-old Zelda Leonie, has been a sex worker since she was 17 years old. She decided to go into sex work when she realized that she could…
AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-I had heard that In South Africa, Gay people were free
By Nomatter Ndebele Zizipho has flaming red hair that matches her clutch bag. Her demure pink [caption id="attachment_6511" align="alignright" width="300"] ZIZIPHO pic by Joyrene Kramer[/caption] manicure matches her soft pink…
AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-Carmen is impossible to miss
By Nomatter Ndebele Carmen is impossible to miss. She comes sauntering down the road with her luscious black locks bouncing gently behind her, as she moves closer she casually drops…
The numbers: HIV and TB in South Africa
What are the key numbers regarding the HIV and TB epidemics in South Africa? We have published a new page on our website where we will keep track of all the latest estimates from a variety of sources.
A new normal where SheDecides: What needs to happen to get there?
By Robin Gorna I want to live in a world where every girl and every woman can decide what to do with her body, her life, and with her future.…
Flight attendant grounded because of HIV status
Flight attendant grounded after disclosing HIV status. By Ufrieda Ho
Funding shock threatens leading health programme for MSM
A trend-setting programme that forms a core part of the South African government’s health services tailored to the needs of men who have sex with men (MSM) is at risk of closing much of its operations because the US government has stopped its funding.
New TB and HIV science from CROI 2017
By Marcus Low – The Conference for Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was held in Seattle this week. Click to read about some of the presentations and findings.
HIV in SA: Five graphs that tell the story
By Marcus Low The recently published outputs of the Thembisa mathematical model of HIV in South Africa paint a remarkable picture of the history of HIV in this country. For…